Circle of Blood Round #

[eumelia]

I just got home.

I spent the evening with friends.

We amused ourselves, played with the dog-niece, talked about almost anything other than the fact that we're at war.

Again.

What else is fucking new.

I'm so sick of this shit.

Rockets are now reaching Tel-Aviv. There was a siren and the office travelled down to the underground parking lot where we waited the ten minutes we're supposed to. It was tense, but not overly so. Someone said there was an anti-war demo being planned and she couldn't understand that.

I said, "It's very easy to understand when you see that violence doesn't actually solve anything, but only make things worse."

I can handle a lot, but I can't handle dehumanisation. It doesn't matter to me who is dead on which side, I only care that a life was lost. There is a disproportionate amount of life lost on the side of the people who don't have the option of escaping and have much weaker weapons.

That doesn't make them better than us. We are no better, we just have bigger guns.

The Israeli government is as blood thirsty as Hamas, make no mistake. They have no intention on stopping the fight, the IDF is calling up 30,000 reservists.

A ground assault is immanent.

With it, a bigger body count.

It doesn't matter to me who is dead on which side.

I'm fine.

I see no horizon.

Comments

[trouble]

♥ I'm so sorry. I have no idea what else to say. ♥

[eumelia]

It's okay. Thank you. <3

[st_aurafina]

Oh, babe. *hugs you* Stay safe.

[eumelia]

*hugs* Thank you. I'll do my best.

[amadi]

*sits with you and hopes for safety and an end to the madness*

[eumelia]

I don't think it ever will.

[majoline]

*hugs you tight* Here's hoping for safety and an end to this.

[eumelia]

*hugs* Thank you. Any end is only temporary, I'm afraid.

[delux_vivens]

glad you are doing ok. i dont even know what to say about all this.

[eumelia]

Thank you. I know. It's pretty rough.

[potted_music]

I'm so sorry.

Stay safe.

[eumelia]

Thank you, I'll do my best.

[ironed_orchid]

Stay safe. Someone has to go to those anti-war demos.

[eumelia]

Thank you.

I haven't been, yet. I've walked past them because the anti-anti-war protests scare me, and so does the police. I was so much braver when I was a student & younger.

[lilacsigil]

Look after yourself, in the mental sense as well as the physical. I'll be thinking of you and your friends and family.

[eumelia]

Thank you, and I'm doing my best.

[perspi]

*hugs you*

[eumelia]

*hugs*

[kayim]

I know we don't talk much on here, but I'll be thinking about you. Stay safe. *hugs*

[eumelia]

I know, it's okay and thank you. *hugs*

[amalnahurriyeh]

Fuck everything right now. Keeping you and yours in my thoughts.

(Specific talk of what's happening, ignore if triggering: I'm also totally flustered by the idea of a ground assault on Gaza, because it is the densest place on earth and everybody is mad and has guns, that is a terrible strategic idea. The casualties--OK, I can't spend my day crying, I have work to do.)

[eumelia]

Thank you.

(It's fucking crazy and they'll do it because they couldn't give a flying fuck.)

[silveradept]

Keep yourself safe, and we hope for a swift end with little death due to both sides recognizing the futility of the fight.

[eumelia]

Thank you.